Mouse Arteries before and after Sleep Fragmentation (IMAGE)

NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Mouse Arteries before and after Sleep Fragmentation

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Images of plaque from the artery of a mouse model of atherosclerosis that experienced a normal sleeping pattern (left) and an image of arterial plaque from a mouse model that underwent sleep fragmentation (right). The amount of arterial plaque in the sleep-fragmented mouse is significantly larger.

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Filip Swirski, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School

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